(18 May 2015)
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Seattle – May 18, 2015
1. Various of demonstrators and chanting: UPSOUND: Seattle says, Shell No
2. Wide of sign that says "Seattle loves the arctic."
3. SOUNDBITE: Brian Gunn, demonstrator:
"We're a sending a message to Shell. Seattle, the people who live here, don't want their rig based here. We don't want them to be drilling in the arctic. We want to start the transition to a sustainable energy economy which is not based on fossil fuels.
4. Various of signs and demonstrators
5. Port of Seattle officers standing behind fence
Storyline:
A few hundred critics of oil drilling in the Arctic Ocean blocked the entrances Monday to a seaport terminal in Seattle, where Royal Dutch Shell's massive floating drill rig will be loaded up before heading to the waters off Alaska this summer.
Protesters holding banners and flags marched across a bridge to Terminal 5, temporarily closing the road during Monday morning's commute. Once at the terminal, they spread out across the entrances.
Organizers say they plan to engage in civil disobedience to stop work on the rig, the latest protest of the 400-foot Polar Pioneer drill rig in Seattle. Shell hopes to use the rig to explore for oil off Alaska's northwest coast.
Police say arrests are possible Monday, but they expect the demonstration to be peaceful. A few dozen officers followed the march on foot and bicycle and kept watch at the terminal.
The activists say they are concerned about the risk of an oil spill in the remote Arctic waters and the effects that tapping new frontiers of oil and gas reserves will have on global warming. Officials in Alaska have touted the economic benefits that drilling could bring there and to the Pacific Northwest.
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